June 25, 2006

IN MEMORIAM – John Lawrence Oliver White

HAPPY memories of a winter spent at Cotton’s Cottage in Kwazulu-Natal in the very early 70s …. Me, my dad, my baby sister and brother. And yep, fish .

We lost our dad five years after this photo was taken. I still miss him.

Today is his birthday. And I feel him near.

May 6, 2006

HOMELESS

People, I have two words for you today: BACK UP!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, my hard drive died. Kaput. I have lost everything, and I mean everything. My emails, addies, editorial correspondence, photographs, word files, manuscripts, music, passwords, book lists, ideas file  …. you name it.  It was a fairly new computer, too. And I realize now that my backup system was not nearly adequate enough. So please, don’t think it can’t happen to you – it does. And fellow writers out there will know just how homeless I feel right now.

If you don’t hear from me for a day or two … it’s because I’m trying to make a new cyber home for myself … or it’s because I no longer have your email addy

April 16, 2006

Hello world!

Hah … my foray into the blogosphere. And just to test my posting ability, I leave you with this thought:-

On Thursday May 4, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 a.m. the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 .